Introduction

PowerColor has been using the SCS3 cooling system on a number of products before. When the HD 3870 was released they soon started working on their implementation of a completely passive HD 3870. The final product is a blessing for all media PC owners or users who want to build a quiet PC. All other SCS3 cards use a cooler designed by Arctic Cooling, the HD 3870 SCS3 does not.

The card's clock speeds, memory configuration and PCB design are exactly the same as the AMD reference design. So the only change other than packaging of course is that the SCS3 cooler has been mounted instead of the AMD reference cooler.